| After your ship washes up on the shore of a seemingly deserted island, you discover that the island is not only inhabited, but also home to a powerful volcano! Your presence has awoken and angered the volcano and put the entire island in jeopardy! Fortunately, the islanders are masters at SKIP-BO and want to teach you their favorite game. Only you can play SKIP-BO with the friendly inhabitants of the island, calm the active volcano, and restore the quiet peace of this tropical paradise! |
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 Fun cards | | Review Date: May 20, 2010 | | Reviewer: T. Durfee, Texas, USA | I enjoy this alternative to a live game with real opponents. I can watch TV and still play, if I'm set up to play 3 other players. I have honed my skills to where I believe I can pretty well hold my own in a live game now. I also enjoy the Partnered game, where you can play off of each other's piles, which makes it even more interesting.
I think it was well worth the investment when I got mine, and it does work on my Windows 7 operating system just like it did on my Vista and XP.
The program does have one tiny intermittant little glitch that shows up on the startup, where it freezes up and has to be forced to close. This happened on all systems. The glitch will show up about once every 30 startups. |
Very relaxing card game | | Review Date: November 26, 2009 | | Reviewer: Ratqueen, USA | Love the real card game, so this is nice when no human's around to play with you. You can choose to play against 1 or several computer players (I think up to 3? Can't remember now) and choose among 3 levels of difficulty.
There are also several game modes to choose from: Adventure (just a somewhat level-driven game where you can earn awards and unlock different card decks), Classic, Speed (play with 10 cards in stock pile instead of the classic 30) and team play (you with a computer player against another computer player team -- in this mode, you can use both yours and your team-mate's visible cards).
Another reviewer mentioned the computer player not always playing cards they could have played. While I have seen this happen too, I think it really simulates human error pretty well. There are 3 levels of computer player to select -- the easy setting definitely makes mistakes like this, which would allow a child to play against it without getting frustrated by losing every time. The medium level makes those mistakes less often. I haven't tried the hard level yet.
The sound effects are very nice: quiet card sounds, points amassing, bonus, etc, as well as background beach sounds like waves and sea birds -- nothing annoying and everything relaxing.
The only thing I found to criticize is that there is no option to save a game in progress. The adventure mode automatically saves its state when you finish a round, but we can't save a match in progress otherwise. Not a huge deal, but it would have been nice.
(Playing on Vista 32 bit). |
Still a lot of fun | | Review Date: November 13, 2009 | | Reviewer: jdaubs, MI | | The AI in this game is definitely weak. I do wish it had network play as well. Other than those little gripes the game is a lot of fun to play. It keeps a running score for every card you lay down which adds a new aspect to the game. So even though the AI is easy to beat the scoring adds a new some new fun to the game. |
too easy | | Review Date: October 23, 2009 | | Reviewer: numainer, | | I always loved this card game but the computer version is too easy. The other players always give you the opening to win. They also have the opportunity to play a card from their pile but don't. It's like playing with a little child who doesn't understand the game. |
This Skip-bo is too easy! | | Review Date: January 31, 2010 | | Reviewer: storey gamer, | I am a Skip-bo fan but it is in deed too easy to win. It doesn't save your game so you can return and your opponent doesn't play his cards to win. I also had a lot of trouble opening the game. I usually get hung up on the opening Skip-Bo loading page. I can finally get it to open after starting over 2-3 times.
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